2. Co-Director, Kentucky P20 Innovation Lab University of Kentucky
Unbridled Learning: What Everyone Should Know about P-20 as it Connects to 21st Century Skills
Eve Proffitt, Ed.D.
Co-Director, Kentucky P20 Innovation Lab
University of Kentucky

3. What Do You Know? Unbridled Learning? 21st Century Skills?
Senate Bill ?
CHETL?
CIITS?
KCAS/KCASS?
Assessment of/for Learning?
PGES/Edivation?

4. Senate Bill 1: KRS 164. 302 http://education. ky
Introduced and passed 2009
Directed revamping of Kentucky’s assessment and accountability system
Direct Kentucky postsecondary institutions to plan and implement a process to develop core academic content standards for reading and mathematics for introductory courses.

5. Senate Bill 1 Provisions
Section 2
Revise state assessment system to be implemented
Variety of assessments including accelerated learning, criterion-referenced test, end of course examinations, formative assessments, interim assessments, national norm-referenced test

6. Section 2 Academic standards
Revision of academic content standards in all areas
Must consider national standards
Aligned with entry level college course requirements
Included in teacher preparation programs so teachers will know how to use them

7. Section 2 :Assessment
Writing portfolios required as instructional tools, but not included in accountability system
No testing in arts & humanities and practical living/career studies
Assessment consist of annual student assessments and state and local program reviews and audits in writing, practical living/career studies and arts & humanities
Formative and summative

8. Purposes of Assessment
Diagnostic information use
National comparisons
Longitudinal student data
Use of data by teachers
Use for school accountability
Compliance with NCLB Act

9. Section 2 Assessment Inappropriate Test Preparation has sanctions
May purchase commercial interim assessments or develop local tests
Accelerated learning for student who indicates skill deficiency or strength
Alignment of core content on all levels
Individual report to parents

10. Section 4 Deletes CATS accountability
Requires KBE to determine how new assessment (KPREP) will classify schools
Revise Accountability
Must use program review results
Use students’ academic performance
Use school improvement results
Other factors

11. Section 8 Professional development programs
Made available to teachers based on their needs
Include strategies to reduce the achievement gaps among various groups of students
Include strategies to
Provide continuous progress
Curriculum content and methods of instruction for each content area including differentiated instruction
School-based decision making
Assessment literacy
Integration of performance based student assessment into daily classroom instruction

12. Section 8 continued To provide: Non graded primary programs
Research based instructional practices
Instructional uses of technology
Curriculum design to serve needs of students with diverse learning styles and skills of students of diverse cultures
Instruction in reading including—phonics, phonemic awareness, comprehension, fluency and vocabulary
Educational leadership
Strategies to incorporate character education throughout the curriculum

13. Section 15
Requires each postsecondary institution to plan and implement a process to develop core academic content standards for reading and math for introductory courses in public postsecondary education institutions.

14. Section 17
Requires EPSB and KDE to improve teachers’ ability to teach writing
Review of teacher preparation requirements
Review of PD and training for school administrators

15. Unbridled Learning
Ky Dept of Education Pages
What students should learn
What will be tested
How subjects will be tested
When tests are given
What should comprise the public school accountability system
College Career Readiness (CCR)

16. Curriculum Standards http://education. ky
Learning Networks
Documents
Attributes of standards based unit of study
Combined curriculum document
Core Content for Assessment
EPAS connected to College Readiness Standards
ELA deconstructed Standards
Kentucky Core Academic Standards
Kentucky Model Curriculum Framework
Math Deconstructed Standards
NGSS Science Standards

17. Standards
KCAS:
ELA Standards: es/ELA-Deconstructed-Standards.aspx
CCR: es/default.aspx

18. Standards Cont’d
Mathematics:
Curriculum Documents es/default.aspx

19. Meet Each Child’s Needs
Differentiation:
Culturally Responsive Instruction: es/CulturallyResponsiveInstruction.aspx
ESS Targeted Interventions: s/default.aspx

20. Characteristics of Highly Effective Teaching and Learning
Learning Climate
Classroom Assessment and Reflection
Instructional Rigor and Student Engagement
Instructional Relevance
Knowledge of Content

21. Ky RtI: http://education.ky.gov/educational/int/ksi/Pages/default.aspx
Districts of Innovation: Districts-of-Innovation.aspx
Technology: default.aspx

22. Continuous Instructional Improvement Technology System (CIITS)
Tool for pulling standards, instructional materials, lesson plans, assessments, data, and PD into integrated online resource
One Stop Shop
Includes KCAS (all content areas)
ACT Quality Core
ISTE National Edu Technology Standards
AASL Library Media Standards

23. CIITS http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/ciits/Pages/default.aspx
Links standards to instructional materials
KET Encyclomedia: Discovery Education
SAS Curriculum Pathways
Thinkfinity
Common Core 360/Edivation (subscription)
Resources and PD on CCS
Comprehensive student information and assessment data
reports

24. Assessment Terms http://education.ky.gov/AA/Pages/default.aspx
Achievement
Gap
Growth
College Readiness
Graduation Rate
EOC: end of course
U.S. History
Algebra II
English II
Biology

25. Accountability Terms School Report Cards No Child Left Behind
Assessment Reports
Sample Test Items

26. Assessment: http://education.ky.gov/AA/Pages/default.aspx
School Report Cards: RC.aspx
No Child Left Behind: index.html

27. Assessment
State Assessments:
Assessment Reports: efault.aspx
Sample Test Items: ult.aspx

28. Teacher Professional Growth
PGES:
TPGES: Pages/default.aspx
Kentucky Framework for Teaching: Pages/Kentucky-Framework-for-Teaching.aspx

29. Resources EQuIP: http://www.achieve.org/EQuIP
Kentucky Teacher Newsletter:
Edivation PD s-2/edivation/

30. 21st Century Skills Collaboration Communication
Creativity and Innovation
Critical thinking and Problem Solving
qBfRNQ 5 minute youtube
framework web site

31. The 6 C’s
What worked well with this class might go fiasco with the other. There is no consistency in the effectiveness of the teaching methods because we are teaching human beings with different needs,cultural backgrounds, ethnic belongings, psychological make-ups , and  learning styles. Teaching is the only job in which the employee deals with all types of people a given society can include.Yet, we dearly love our job and we have equipped ourselves with such an adaptability skill that enables us to seamlessly and easily  blend in any educational context.
Communication: Shares thoughts, questions, ideas, and solutions in positive, constructive, productive ways.
Collaboration: Is able to work with others to reach a goal---uses talent, expertise, and smarts to work constructively as part of a team or group.
Critical Thinking: Looks at a problem in a new and/or different ways, linking learning across subjects & disciplines, and seeks to understand issues from multiple perspectives in order to solve problems.
Creativity: Tries or thinks about new approaches to get things done and seeks to be innovative and inventive in both day-day work and professional development.

32. Critical Attributes

33. NXGL FOCUS
World Class Knowledge and Skills: To realize this attribute, the Partnership will support the Network in helping students acquire, practice, and demonstrate the various dimensions of learning that lead to college and career readiness throughout the disciplines. An important component of this work is defining, recognizing and demonstrating a clear vision of success.
STUDENT VOICE: To realize this attribute, the Partnership will support the Network in engaging students as active agents of change. Students will be given the opportunity to co-create new systems of learning and peer-support. Students will take on roles in advocacy and communication efforts to build connections to the broader community. Students will own their learning.
PERFORMANCE BASED LEARNING: To realize this attribute, the Partnership will support the Network in finding, developing and refining new learning models that promote individual growth towards increasingly complex learning, rather than putting students through a schooling process that measures and credentials based on time. Students will be provided with explicit and challenging learning objectives and supported by a comprehensive assessment system that is meaningful and positive.
PERSONALIZED LEARNING: To realize this attribute, the Partnership will support the Network in developing tools and capacities to create and deliver customized learning plans for all students. Students, working collaboratively with educators, family and community, will develop plans that guide their learning experiences from the time they enter the system until they graduate. The full-scale implementation of customized learning plans will ensure that all students receive the supports they need to achieve college and career readiness.
ANYTIME, ANYWHERE: To realize this attribute, the Partnership will work with the Network to identify and acquire web-based technology, resources, and practices that are innovative and future-focused. The Network will leverage these technology- enabled solutions to ensure that every student has ubiquitous access to world-class technology, content, teaching and supports for learning. This strand of work will enhance virtual interconnectivity and will equip students with skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly.
COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM OF SUPPORT: To realize this attribute, the Partnership will support the Network in working within and across states to develop comprehensive youth-friendly support structures that are easily accessed, timely, and continuous. These structures will go beyond conventional academic interventions to address the social, emotional, physical, and cognitive developmental needs of students. This work will require new and deeper collaborations with other agencies and support systems. Finally, this strand of work will establish new relationships with postsecondary education and workplace to support students through important transitions.

34. Today’s Students Learn and Communicate Differently
Each day they… Spend an average of 3-4 hours online (Social networking, watching videos, playing games, writing blogs, downloading and listening to music, ing, etc.) Send and receive approximately 100 text messages…and…place/receive 20 or more calls. (566% increase over the past 2 years) Will have written and read more material online than they have in a classroom…

36. What Has Really Changed?
Early 20th Century Classroom
Early 21st Century Classroom

37. If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow. John Dewey

38. We invite you to join us! www.p20lab.org Eve.proffitt@uky.edu 38